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Update the latin name

I fixed a typo in this page but it got recently reverted to the original words(if that is the right way to say it) because testudinarium means tortoiseshell in latin but testudinarum means turtles and since tortoise and turtle mean the same in latin, and kura kura is plural for tortoise, why not change it? (Also durian shells don’t look like turtleshells) ArtocarpusOdoratissimusTarap (talk) 13:32, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We don't "fix" scientific names. What is used in the current scientific literature is what we use. It doesn't matter if the gender of scientific names doesn't match, it is not our job to fix it. If the botanists figure it out and publish a new description under the "corrected" name, and that correction is accepted and used widely, then, and only then, do we change it here. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:09, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ArtocarpusOdoratissimusTarap: What UtherSRG has said is correct. There are plenty of cases where the current biological "Latin" names are incorrect by the standards of classical Latin, but they are correct as the modern scientific names of species. Furthermore, where do you get the information you have given about the meaning of those words in Latin? I can't find any evidence that either word existed in Latin, and the normal Latin word for "turtles" was "testudines". In fact "testudinarum" could not possibly mean "turtles" even if it did exist; the only way that a plural Latin noun can end in "-um" is if it is genitive, in which case it might mean "of turtles", but not "turtles". I recommend that you not only abstain from changing technical terms to what you think they should be rather than what they are, but also abstain from trying to make any kind of correction anywhere based on what you believe is correct usage of a language unless you have a good enough knowledge of that language to know what is actually correct. JBW (talk) 19:06, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]